from WND:
The CDC will soon recommend annual COVID shots, much like the current annual flu shots, said Dr. Mandy Cohen, the embattled federal health agency’s new director, in an interview Thursday.
President Biden picked Cohen, the former head of North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services, to replace the controversy-prone Rochelle Walensky to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost a month ago despite Republicans’ objections.
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Asked by a Spectrum reporter if the CDC were moving toward recommending one COVID shot per year for Americans, Cohen said, “Well, we’re just on the precipice of that, so I don’t want to get ahead of where our scientists are here … but yes, we anticipate that what COVID will become is similar to flu shots, where it’s going to be: you get your annual flu shot and you get your annual COVID shot.”
“We’re not quite there yet. But stay tuned: I think in the next couple of weeks to a month we’re going to hear more from our experts on COVID shots. But we expect a booster coming for this fall and winter season,” Cohen said. “We’ve got to remember: the flu is circulating, RSV [respiratory syncytial virus] is circulating and COVID is circulating. But the good news is we have vaccines and treatment for all. We just need to use these tools.”
Cohen said “early to mid-September is probably when we’ll have the official guidance” on COVID. “But everyone should expect in this fall time to get a COVID shot and certainly to get a flu shot.”
Congressional opposition
A Spectrum reporter wrote in June: “Fortunately for Cohen, the CDC is not a position subject to congressional confirmation.” That is certainly true, as 21 House members and seven senators, including Ted Budd, representing Cohen’s home state of North Carolina, wrote to Biden in June urging him to pull her nomination, citing her COVID policy actions in the state and her “history of engaging in partisan left-wing politics.”
In their July 13 letter urging Biden to withdraw Cohen’s then-upcoming appointment, the 28 Capitol Hill lawmakers wrote that “Dr. Cohen is unfit for the position” at CDC.
“Throughout her career, Dr. Cohen has politicized science, disregarded civil liberties, and spread misinformation about the efficacy and necessity of COVID vaccinations and the necessity of masks during her time as the secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. She also has a history of engaging in partisan left-wing politics,” they wrote.
